To be alive is power,

Existence in itself,

Without a further function,

Omnipotence enough.

 To be alive and Will—

‘T is able as a God!

The Further of ourselves be what-

Such being Finitude?

Brandon Mazur offers two critical views of several poems: from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s 1979 book The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination and blogger Susan Kornfeld, who has undertaken the ambitious project of reading and commenting on all of Emily Dickinson's 1,789 poems in chronological order.